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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/07/2012 11:24 PM, Rossen Apostolov
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Dear all,<br>
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Recently the Gromacs mailing lists have been used for sending spam
and viruses, and thus now only plain text messages are accepted. <br>
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If you have received rejected mails saying "The message's content
type was not explicitly allowed" it means that you have used in
your mail special styles or formatting (e.g. bold typeface, colors
etc.). <br>
<br>
Check your email client settings about how to send messages as
plain text, e.g. in GMail make sure to click on "Compose ->
Plain Text".
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Check also whether a formatted signature is added.<br>
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Attachments are also not allowed but you could include links for
downloads.<br>
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Rossen<br>
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Bump.<br>
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I'm happy banning attachments (there's lots of free upload space out
there), but think that explicitly requiring plain text email is a
significant barrier to participation. Some web mail clients don't
permit a non-HTML mime type - that's not our fault but we have to
live in that jungle. Some people will walk away without bothering to
find out if they can configure plain text email. Others will judge
the technical competence of the team on their ability to run the
mailing list. If we need to outsource it somewhere, we should do
that.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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